To bring to be what none may understand.

I shall but light the hand . . .

Lo, here, the light upon my brow shall lead

Thy son until he bleed;

Until he fail, and falter, and despair.

Even in his blackest night I shall be there

My star will be his guidance: he will know

What light is, from its glow.”

A sonnet upon Ezekiel Rust.

Son of Isaiah Rust, of Churn, his wage